I joined this forum because I am currently doing a research paper on Rorke's Drift. I would appreciate any primary information sources that you could inform me of.

Thank you,
Caith

AMB

Joined: 07 Oct 2005

Posts: 874

Location: Queensland, Australia

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:04 pm

Caith,

A useful start could be made by looking at rest of this excellent site.

A next step could be the books sect of this site. There are a number of accounts written by participants in battle of RD.

AMB

Dawn

Joined: 31 Aug 2005

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Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:30 am

Or follow the sticky link to the original forum and go to the book review page.

Dawn

Caith

Joined: 02 Nov 2007

Posts: 2

Location: Nebraska, US

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:58 pm

Yes, this is a very informative site, thank you.

I was wondering if any of you know about any news articles that may have been written in that time period about Rorke's Drift. I am also curious if anyone knows of a source that could provide the individual identity's of all the soldiers who fought in the battle.

Dawn

Joined: 31 Aug 2005

Posts: 610

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:47 pm

For identities you would need the book "The Noble 24th" by Norman Holme available at the RRW website shop.

For news articles you would need "The Illustrated London News" compiled by Ron Lock and Peter Quantrill also availabe at the museum webiste.

Again I'd direct you to the book reviews page of the original discussion forum.